Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. Learn from Cisco expert Rajamani Nallakaruppan on how to prepare Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.x to Support Cisco Jabber for Android/­­iPhone.

Cisco Jabber for Android/iPhone delivers enterprise telephony calling features and corporate directory lookup directly from Android/iPhone devices. Cisco Jabber is client software for your smartphone that runs in the background, so you can simultaneously access other applications on your Android/iPhone device. You can place and receive business calls through your Cisco IP telephony system whether using your corporate Wi-Fi network, other Wi-Fi networks, or a mobile data network in order to avoid costly cellular minutes and international toll charges.

Rajamani Nallakaruppan is a support engineer in the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in India. He is an expert on Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communication Applications, Voice Gateways, and Cisco TelePresence. He holds a bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and communication and also holds CCNA, CCNA Voice, CCVP, and MCP certification.

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Is there anywhere a Roadmap for Jabber ? I can`t find anything about upcoming features and (important) WHEN will this be implemented. I think Jabber has big potential but if you compare, at the moment, Jabber with Lync, Jabber is learning baby.

Can you please let me know what feature are you looking for in Cisco Jabber. We have Cisco Jabber for various devices like the Windows/iPhone/Android/MAC/BlackBerry. The release notes of every product will talk about the features included in them.

Thanks for taking Cisco Jabber Windows to the next level. The development team is working very actively on to include more and more features in Cisco Jabber Windows so that it competes and takes down the other IM clients out in the market.

Out of the features you had asked, the Desktop sharing is already there and is very perfectly fine and the Outlook Contacts mapping is also there. You can try the new release 9.0.4 which has got more features and more resolved caveats.

Yep, as you mentioned, Jabber for Android can make calls over the VPN. So all we need is Jabber is to get registered to the CUCM and it become a Virtual IP Phone. So if IP Phones are able to make calls to International numbers from your network, then your Jabber Android should also be able to.

To know if it is legal , you can check the TRAI regulations and you should be able to get an answer out of it.

Just use my example again, I have a user Mike Price in MS LDAP, his user ID is mike.price and e-mail ID is mike.price@xtra.co.nz, according to your first half answer, I must create mike.price as user ID in CUCM/CUPS, but according to your second half answer, the last sentence, I also so can create user ID mike.price@xtra.co.nz in CUCM/CUPS which is Mike’s e-mail ID format. So both ways will work? If the second way also work, then the user ID in MS LDAP and CUCM/CUPS do NOT have to be same.

The username should be the same in both the UC and the Exchange server. Since you dont have the LDAP integration done on the CUCM, you cant change the Username attribute in your LDAP mapping from saMAccountName to Email Address. So on your CUCM/CUPS, the userid should be mike.price@xtra.co.nz and then on your Exchange server/AD , the user id has to be the same mike.price@xtra.co.nz. Please note that if you have a Proxy domain name set up in your CUPS server then the username will be suffixed with the domain xtra.co.nz, so make sure that you dont get the domain name two times.

I have a question about CUPS/Jabber integration with MS exchange for the calendar presence information

Does the User ID in the exchange server must be the same in the CUCM/CUPS?

For example, I have a user Mike Price in exchange server, his e-mail address is mike.price@xtra.co.nz. Because the CUCM is not integraded with MS LDAP. Can I created a User ID mike.price@xtra.co.nz in CUCM/CUPS? So his calendar status inforamtion can be pulled into CUPS and can be viewed by other jabber user?